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Mr.  Perkins  moved  the  following  as  an  amendment  to  the  Exemp- 
tion Bill,  reported  fiora  the  Committee  on  Militar3^  Affairs : 


To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  amend  the  existing  Acts  for  the  exemption 
of  persons  from  military  service. 

1  Skction  1.   The   Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do 

2  enact,  That  the  provisions  *' to   secure  the  proper  police  of  the 

3  country,"  contained  in  the  act  approved  October  II,  1862,  shall 

4  not  extend  to  any  farm  or  plantation  on  which  the  negroes  have 
5^  been  placed  by  division  from  any  other  farm  or  plantation  since 

6  the  date  of  said  act,  unless  in  cases  of  forced  removal  by  reason 

7  of  invasion  or  imminent  menace  of  hostile  occupation. 

1  Sec.  2.   That  on  any  farm  on  which  resides  a  family  of  white 

2  women    and    children    not    less    than    ten    in    number,  who  are 

3  dependent  for  support  and  protection  on  the  labor  and  presence 

4  of  a  white  man,  and  on  which  there  is  no   white   male  adult  not 

5  liable  to  military  duty,  and  n(>t  pliysically  or  mentally  incapable 

6  of  affording  such  support  and  protection,  or  mile  minor  or  minors 

7  capaole  of  working  said  farm,  there  shall  be  exempted  one  person 

8  as  laborer,  when  said  person  shall  verify  the  facts  aforesaid  by 


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9  his  own" and  the  affidavits  of  two  respectahle  citizens,  to  be  filed 

1(1  with  the  enrolling  officer,  and  shall  also  make  affidavit  that  said 

11  person  so  to  be  exempted,  designs  in  good  faith   to  act  in  said 

12  capacity  on  said  farm  ;   and  in  the  event  of  a  failure  to  do  so,  at 

13  any  time  thereafter,  tliis  cxe^nption  as  to  said  person  shall  cease: 

14  Provided,  The  enrolling  officer  shall  be  satisfied  that  a  white  male 

15  adult,  not  liable  to  military  duty,  cannot  be  procured  suitable 
IG  for  said  purpose. 

1  Sec.  3.  That,  upon  petition  by  the  county  court,  or  equiva- 

2  lent  body  of  magistrates,  one  person,  by  them  designated,  may 

3  be   exempted  as  laborer  for  any  large  number  of  women  and 

4  children,  not  less  than  twenty,  resident  in  one  vicinage,  though 

5  they  may  not  all  be  of  one  family,  or  under  the  same  roof,  or  on 

6  the  same  farm,  dependent  for  support  and  protection  on  the  l^or 

7  and  presence  of  a  Avhite  man,  and  among  whom  there  is  not  pre- 

8  sent  any  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military  service  and  not 

9  physically  or  mentally  incapable  of  affording  such  support  and 

10  protection :  Provided,  The   said  exemption   shall   continue  only 

1 1  during  the  continuance  of  said  employment  in  good  faith. 

1  Sue.  4.  That  nothing  in  any  act  relating  to  exemptions   shall 

2  be  construed  to  exempt  agents,  clerks  or  other  persons  employed 

3  by  officers  in  the  quartermaster's  commissary's  or  other  depart - 

4  ments  of  the  government,  unless  such  agents  or  clerks  are  allowed 

5  by  laAV,  and  their  fees  or  salaries  fixed  by  law,  and  they  were 


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6  so  employed  previous  to  October  11,  1862;  nor  to  authorize  the 

7  discharge  of  any  one  now  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confede- 


8     rate  government. 


